As President of PLYMOUTH ARGAUM RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB, an honour of which I am justly proud, I feel that I should write this "tailpiece". On behalf
of the Club, all members past, present and even future, I wish to thank David Dobell for the tremendous amount
of time and effort he has put into researching and writing this book. I am sure, however, that I can state that
it was "a labour of love". Our thanks are also due to Mike Worth for the printing and to Dave Beer for
the excellent art work on the front cover.

As I have stressed on many occasions, it is impossible to run a Rugger Club on players alone.
I therefore propose to pay tribute to the "many" who have kept the wheels turning over the years. Of
Leslie Paul, George Wakeham and Peter Matthews you will have read in the text. I would bring to your notice the
following members Ed C. 0'Carroll, who with pipe and glass, gave us much needed support from the touch line (and
in the bar) on many a stormy afternoon. he was an old player, staunch committee man and chairman of selectors for
many years.

He was followed by Major "Ernie" Hamblin (whose two sons played for the Club) to whom
most of the fore-going remarks apply. This office has lately been filled by Mike Pike in similar fashion. We owe
them many thanks for their work.

Now the builders, Colin Whiting and Norman White, who taught many of us to lay blocks (in fact
I appear to have been laying blocks off and on ever since). This tradition has been ably carried on by Malcolm
Hawed and his team, who have virtually refurbished the Club house in preparation for the Centenary. Then there
are those stalwarts who started, and have run the bar - Jimmy Russell, Colin Lavers, Frank Lavis, and now the one
and only Bill Annandale, whose connections with the licensing trade have made the Bar into what it is today, something
of which any club should be proud. We also owe a great deal of thanks to those ladies who over the years have contributed
greatly to our comfort on the catering front. Our thanks are due certainly to June Russell, Ann Rees, Pat Price,
Judy Lavers, Sylvia Green, Jane Blonden and many others. Then for a period we had great service in this department
from Peter Green, who took a break from playing, to cope with the catering. Over the last few years, the Kitchen
has been re-vamped and now provides excellent meals in the capable hands of Bobby Bawden, Joan Critten and Janey
Osborne.

I would now call to your attention those indefatigable "first aiders" in the person
of Tom Luckhan and his side kick Bill Bailey.

It is my hope that any person that I have omitted to mention will take the publication of this
book as a sincere tribute to ALL who have in any way
helped PLYMOUTH ARGAUM over these last one hundred years.

I consider myself very fortunate to have been a member of the club for over half a century and
to have made so many wonderful friends during this period.